"We must learn to die, and to..." - Quote by Richard Wagner

“I can't distract myself enough here, for sketches to a new opera are constantly buzzing around in my head, to the extent that I need all my strength to wrest myself from them.”

“Everything lives and lasts by the inner necessity of its being, by its own nature's need.”

“Wherever the fish are, that's where we go.”

“The greatest thing in life is to die young - but delay it as long as possible.”

“Only the dead will know the end of the war.”

“Death means that a form of life dissolves or that the imminent possibility of dissolution exists, whether through our own death or through illness or old age.”

“To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength,Gives, in your weakness, strength unto your foe,And so your follies fight against yourself.Fear, and be slain--so worse can come to fight;And fight and die is death destroying death,Where fearing dying pays death servile breath.”

“There was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves”

“It was fear that was then making you a good citizen, which is never a lasting teacher of duty.”